Min Cai Computer Science Department University of Southern California 3740 McClintock Ave, EEB 114 Los Angeles, CA. 90089-2562 USA Tel: (213)740-0468 Biography Min Cai received his Ph.D. in Computer Science at University of Southern California in Dec. 2006. During his Ph.D. study at USC, he worked as a Graduate Research Assistant in USC Internet and Grid Computing Laboratory with Professor Kai Hwang. Before joining the GridSec project, he worked in Distributed Scalable Systems Division and Center for Grid Technologies at Information Sciences Institute. In 2001, he joined IBM Research, Beijing, where he worked on multimedia networking. His research interests include intrusion detection, peer-to-peer and grid computing, semantic web and web services technologies.

Courses

• CST 551: Computer Communications
• CSCI 555: Advanced Operating Systems
• CSCI 561: Artificial Inteligence
• CSCI 570: Analysis of Algorithms
• CSCI 571: Issues in Programming Languages
• CSCI 584: Control and Learning in Mobile Robots and Multi-Robot Systems
• CSCI 585: Database Systems
• CSCI 597: Seminar in Computer Science
• CSCI 599: Beyond Web Browsers: Challenges of Web Services & Cluster Computing
• CSCI 599: Introduction to Grid Computing
• CSCI 694: Topics in Computer Networks and Distributed Systems

Publications

Journal Articles

1. M. Cai, K. Hwang, J. Pan, and C. Papadopoulos, "WormShield: Fast Worm Signature Generation with Distributed Fingerprint Aggregation", IEEE Trans. on Dependable and Secure Computing, accepted Nov. 2006 (in press). pdf
2. K. Hwang, M. Cai, Y. Chen and M. Qin, "Integrating Misuse and Abnormal Intrusion Detection Systems Using Weighted Signature Generation", IEEE Trans. on Dependable and Secure Computing, accepted Dec. 2006 (in press).
3. A. L. Chervenak and M. Cai, "Applying Peer-to-Peer Techniques to Grid Replica Location Services", Journal of Grid Computing, 4(1), 2006, pp. 49-69. pdf
4. K, Hwang, Y.-K. Kwok, S. Song, M. Cai, Y. Chen, and Y. Chen, "DHT-based Security Infrastructure for Trusted Internet and Grid Computing", Int'l Journal of Critical Infrastructures, 2(4), 2005. pdf
5. S. Ghandeharizadeh, C. Papadopoulos, M. Cai, R. Zhou, and P. Pol, "NAM: A Network Adaptable Middleware to Enhance Response Time of Web Services", Int'l Journal of Web Services Research (JWSR), 2(4), October 2005. link
6. M. Cai, K. Hwang, Y.-K. Kwok, S. Song, and Y. Chen, "Collaborative Internet Worm Containment", IEEE Security and Privacy Magazine, May 2005. pdf
7. M. Cai, M. Frank, B. Yan, and R. MacGregor, "A Subscribable Peer-to-Peer RDF Repository for Distributed Metadata Management", Journal of Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web,2(2), 2005. pdf
8. M. Cai, M. Frank, J. Chen P. Szekely. "MAAN: A Mulit-Attribute Addressable Network for Grid Information Services", Journal of Grid Computing , 2(1), 2004, pp. 3-14. pdf
9. S. Ghandeharizadeh, C. Papadopoulos, M. Cai and K. K. Chintalapudi. "Performance of Networked XML-Driven Cooperative Applications". Journal of Concurrent Engineering: Research and Applications , 12(3), 2004, pp. 195-204.
10. J. Xie, M. Cai, G. Gu, "Research on the Optimization Strategies of CORBA Implementation Systems", Journal of Computer Research and Development, 36(7), July, 1999, pp. 824-829.

Submitted Journal Papers:

1. R. Zhou, K. Hwang and M. Cai, "Gossip-based Reputation Aggregation for Unstructured Peer-to-Peer Networks", submitted to IEEE Trans. On Knowledge and Data Engineering, Dec. 2006.
2. M. Cai, K. Hwang, "Distributed Aggregation Schemes for Scalable Peer-to-Peer and Grid Computing", submitted to IEEE Trans. on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Sept, 2006.
3. J. Wu, M. Cai, S. Deng and K. Hwang, "Semantic Web/Grid Services for Distance Learning", submitted to IEEE Internet Computing, Special Issue on Distance Learning, Sept, 2006.

Conference and Workshop Papers

1. M. Cai and K. Hwang, "Distributed Aggregation Algorithms with Load-Balancing for Scalable Grid Resource Monitoring", Proc. of the 21st IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS '07), May, 2007.
2. M. Cai, J. Pan, Y. Kwok, and K. Hwang, "Fast and Accurate Traffic Matrix Measurement Using Adaptive Cardinality Counting", The SIGCOMM Workshop on Mining Network Data (MineNet'05), August 2005. pdf
3. M. Cai, A. Chervenak, and M. Frank. "A Peer-to-Peer Replica Location Service Based on A Distributed Hash Table", The 2004 ACM/IEEE Conference on Supercomputing (SC2004), Pittsburgh, November 2004. pdf
4. M. Cai, and M. Frank, "RDFPeers: A Scalable Distributed RDF Repository based on A Structured Peer-to-Peer Network", The 13th Int'l World Wide Web Conference (WWW2004), New York, May, 2004. pdf
5. M. Cai, M. Frank, J. Chen, and P. Szekely, "MAAN: A Mulit-Attribute Addressable Network for Grid Information Services", The 4th Int'l Workshop on Grid Computing (Grid2003), Phoenix, Arizona, Nov 17, 2003. pdf
6. J. Chen, A. Bugacov, P. Szekely, M. Frank, M. Cai, Do. Kim, and R. Neches. "Coordinated Aggressive Bidding in Distributed Combinatorial Resource Allocation". AAMAS Workshop on Representations and Approaches for Time-critical Decentralized Resource/Role/Task Allocation, Melbourne, Australia, July 14, 2003. pdf
7. S. Ghandeharizadeh, C. A. Knoblock, C. Papadopoulos, C. Shahabi, E. Alwagait, J. Luis Ambite, M. Cai, C.-C. Chen, P. Pol, R. Schmidt, S. Song, S. Thakkar, and R. Zhou, "Proteus: A System for Dynamically Composing and Intelligently Executing Web Services". The 2003 Int'l Conference on Web Services (ICWS2003) , Las Vegas, Nevada, June 2003. pdf
8. S. Ghandeharizadeh, C. Papadopoulos, M. Cai, and K. K. Chintalapudi, "Performance of Networked XML-Driven Cooperative Applications". The 2nd Int'l Workshop on Cooperative Internet Computing (CIC, held in conjunction with VLDB), August 2002. pdf
9. M. Cai, S. Ghandeharizadeh, R. Schmidt, S. Song, "A Comparison of Alternative Encoding Mechanisms for Web Services", The 13th Int'l Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA), Aix en Provence, France, September 2002. pdf
10. M. Cai, J. Xie, Y. Wang, G. Gu, "An Implementation Model of IntServ/RSVP based CORBA A/V Stream Service", The 36th IEEE Int'l Conference on Technology of Object-Oriented Languages and Systems (TOOLS Asia'2000), Xi'an, pp.94-99, October, 2000. pdf
11. J. Xie, M. Cai, Y. Wang, "An Implementation Model of Real-time CORBA for Internet Applications", The 31st IEEE Int'l Conference on Technology of Object-Oriented Languages and Systems (TOOLS Asia'99), Nanjing, pp.326-330, September, 1999. pdf
12. M. Cai, R. Zou, R. Zhou and J. Xie, "Research and Application of the DOC-Based Distributed Artificial Intelligence", The 5th Int'l Conference for Young Computer Scientists, (ICYCS'99), Nanjing, pp.748-750, August, 1999. pdf

Research

• Collaborative Worm Containment
• Distributed Metadata Management
• Auction-based Distributed Resource Allocation
• Peer-to-Peer Systems
• Performance Study on Web Services

Other Links

• Programming Resources
  • The GNU C Library
  • Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide
  • Java Platform SE, 1.4.1 API Specification
  • GNU Emacs Manual
• Journals and Conference Proceedings
  • Distributed Systems Online
  • IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
  • IEEE Transactions on Computer
  • IEEE Transactions on Communications